Top 30 Worst Washington DC Public Housing Projects Of All Time Most Dangerous Hoods In The District
Washington, DC's 30 Worst Public Housing Projects of All-Time are presented in this video. The most infamous, dangerous complexes, that are currently, or were previously located in the District of Columbia, are listed in this video. Here are the infamous D.C. housing projects that made the list!
Chapter:
00:00 - Intro
01:12 - Benning Terrace
03:31 - Linda Pollin Memorial Housing
05:27 - Sursum Corda
07:12 - Eastgate Gardens
08:29 - Stoddert Terrace
10:22 - East Capitol Dwellings
11:33 - Barry Farms Dwellings
13:35 - Kenilworth Courts
15:16 - Lincoln Heights
16:59 - Richardson Dwellings
18:26 - Potomac Gardens
19:45 - Valley Green Skytower
21:51 - Langston Terrace
23:19 - Woodland Terrace
24:41 - Highland Dwellings
26:03 - Greenleaf Gardens
27:35 - Kentucky Courts
29:40 - Hopkins Apartments
31:15 - Montana Terrace
32:44 - Temple Courts
33:57 - Fort Dupont Dwellings
35:53 - Arthur Capper Dwellings
37:27 - Park Morton Apartments
39:01 - Syphax Gardens
40:59 - James Creek Dwellings
42:46 - Sheridan Terrace
44:07 - Carroll Apartments
45:26 - Frederick Douglass Dwellings
47:13 - LeDroit Apartments
49:18 - Stanton Dwellings
50:35 - Garfield Terrace
52:14 - Parkside Dwellings
53:42 - Ellen Wilson Dwellings
When formerly enslaved migrants arrived in DC, after escaping the Jim Crow South, they often lived in substandard housing called alley dwellings, poorly constructed homes, that sat in the alleys of the city.
In 1934, the District of Columbia established the National Capital Housing Authority (NCHA). Originally, the Authority confined its actions to slum reclamation in areas of the District containing inhabited alleys.
The Alley Dwellings Authority (a precursor to the NCHA) engaged in a prolonged campaign to eliminate the alley dwellings. The construction of public housing helped alleviate DC's housing shortage, yet there has consistently been more demand than supply.
The first public housing project in DC, built in 1937, was Langston Terrace Dwellings.
In the lates 1980s, crack overtook PCP, aka love boat, as the most popular drug in the District, because it was cheaper and the high was considered better. The city's housing projects became open air drug markets, controlled by street crews.
Lucrative profits led to violent turf wars. Young men were murdered nearly every night.
By the 1990s, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rated DC's public housing system among the nation's worst. Hundreds of units were abandoned and vacant and thousands of low income families lived in buildings in dangerous disrepair. Crime often surged in the hallways of the complexes, and residents were frustrated by mismanagement and empty promises.
In 1991, DC had the highest homicide rate in the country. The nation's capital, became known as the nation's murder capital, with nearly 500 killings, most of which, were drug related.
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